Author: Prasad, M. Madhava
Title: Ideology of the Hindi Film : A Historical Construction
Description: Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998. orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, 258 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Ideology of Formal Subsumption; The Economics of Ideology: Popular Film Form & Mode of Production; The Absolutist Gaze: Political Structure & Cultural Form; Guardians of the View: The Prohibition of the Private; The Moment of Disaggregation; The Aesthetic of Mobilization; Middle-Class Cinema; The Developmental Aesthetic; Towards Real Subsumption? Signs of Ideological Reform in Two Recent Films.

Keywords: Indian Popular Cinema, Film Criticism, Hindi Films, Motion Pictures, Movies, Ideology, India South Asia, ,